As a teenager, your first school dance is a night you’ll always remember as the night you get to dress up and ask your crush to be your date for the first time, however, one 15-year-old from South Dakota new the only girl he wanted to bring was his 10-year-old sister Rebekah.
Rebekah Spader was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome four years ago, and despite every treatment they’ve tried, even a bone marrow transplant, has failed. Knowing how sick his little sister was, AJ Spader decided he wanted to bring her to his first high school dance since she may not survive long enough to go to high school.
“Rebeka and AJ have a close relationship and he has a really big heart,” mom Stephanie Spader said of AJ who wanted to “allow her to do something that she wouldn’t get to do.”
AJ decided to ask his little sister to the dance on a sign reading “I’d be blessed blessed if you went to formal with me” as he knew she may not make it to her own high school dance. “She’s most likely not going to be able to experience high school. So, I just thought why not ask her to the formal,” AJ said.
“I want to spend as much time with her as possible while she’s still doing good,” AJ said.
Everyone helped out to make sure Rebekah felt like a princess, and her grandma and older sister did her hair and makeup so that all the doctors visits, cancer treatments, and operations would feel like a distant dream.
Though they didn’t actually arrive at the dance since Rebekah was too nervous, she got to take pictures and enjoy dinner with everyone. “AJ and his friends embraced her and embraced the situation and didn’t blink twice that a little 10-year-old sister was going to hang out with them,” Spader said. “That for me was the most special thing.”
Watch the entire video below to see the amazing moment this sick little girl gets to go to her first high school dance thanks to her amazing big brother.
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